Annoying timewasters!!!!!!!!!!!

[WeThePeople]

Well said but its a two way street, ive been put off by dishonest or greedy sellers, sometimes they dont have a clue how to conduct a sale so i just tell them where to go - Every query i make regarding a critter is always genuine though.

Ive never let anyone down, i did come close this weekend though, id arranged to meet kennydrew but something came up an hour or so before i was supposed to meet him - I sent my wife instead so everything was fine

[spider_mad]

The first corn I bought was from someone on this forum and was put on as relisting due to timewasters and I said I was interested at the same time there was a women also interested and the seller said that there was someone else I said that if she wanted it no problem let her have it, later that day I said to myself sod it the women will only waste her time again so I paid a £10 deposit to hold it and said to keep hold and I would collect it when I had the full amount which I kept my word too. It's just common courtesy to be straight with someone.

[WeThePeople]

Originally Posted by Torres13

I imagine if a thread was made which was open to anybody to post it would get quite heated so there is no good way of doing it really!
Some people just want everything, which is fair enough if your going to be everything but if your not why bother wasting peoples time and efforts?
Another thing which annoys me is when you make a thread selling something and somebody repiles saying, if i lived closer or if I had the money I would! I personally get excited when somebody repiles to my thread and when I see an answer like that it just dissapoints me!

That boils my wee wee too, for sale threads full of crap. Loads of them with "free bump" too, wtf is that about?

[spider_mad]

Originally Posted by Torres13

I imagine if a thread was made which was open to anybody to post it would get quite heated so there is no good way of doing it really!
Some people just want everything, which is fair enough if your going to be everything but if your not why bother wasting peoples time and efforts?
Another thing which annoys me is when you make a thread selling something and somebody repiles saying, if i lived closer or if I had the money I would! I personally get excited when somebody repiles to my thread and when I see an answer like that it just dissapoints me!

Unfortunately that is literally 99% of all classifieds which is a real pain in the ass. "If only I was closer" is the biggest load of bo****ks tbh, England is not that big of a country and living in a different part of the country is not really an issue considers TNT deal with rep deliveries and there is Reptile taxi or plain simply they can get off their asses and take a road trip. A 3 hour or 4 hour drive is not as big a burden that everyone makes out to be.

[quizicalkat]

I learnt my lessons selling kittens

1) Always start the advertised price at over the odds - you can always reduce it

2) The above because it stops alot of the timewasters, countless e-mails, im's and phone calls.

3) Never give out address details until the day before - ask them to ring then to confirm the appointment and explain you'll tell them where you are.

and 4) Never-Ever reverse something for someone without a resonable (say 1/3 non-refundable deposit with a date they have to pick it up by.

And everytime I diviate from these rules - I get stung!

There may be new rules I have to pick up in the rep game. After all people are people!

[Tops]

Deposit deposit deposit.
It sorts the timewasters from the people who actually want your stuff.

[Torres13]

We could bitch and moan about this all day eh! Another thing which annoys me is when you make a sale thread, you get a reply and the first thing it says is, can you lower the price at all?
I mean fair enough they want a good price but they have just basically destroyed your thread by making out your price isnt fair! I dont mind if its like 'lower it to this and ill buy it' but somepeople never any any intention

[Tops]

Originally Posted by Torres13

We could bitch and moan about this all day eh! Another thing which annoys me is when you make a sale thread, you get a reply and the first thing it says is, can you lower the price at all?
I mean fair enough they want a good price but they have just basically destroyed your thread by making out your price isnt fair! I dont mind if its like 'lower it to this and ill buy it' but somepeople never any any intention

I always reply to classifieds through PMs for this reason

[SiUK]

I did it once I admit, but I had an unfortunate change of circumstances and we did discuss it months before they would be ready, and i did PM and apologise and explain.

[spider_mad]

I reckon in many cases a lot of the time wasters are the younger members (not tarnishing everyone so apologise if anyone young doesnt fall into this) that simply want it but dont have enough or the parents decided against it. It's bad enough to waste time by putting pointless replies in the thread but it's worse when they actually say they will arrange a pick up point and just dont show up and ignore any calls or emails which is inexcusible tbh. Unless there was very good reason but for the sake of p*ssing someone around is just.... I dont know all I can say is bad karma i believe do good receive good do bad receive bad.